Re: Why dump/restore to upgrade?

Lamar Owen <lamar(dot)owen(at)wgcr(dot)org> writes:

> On Friday 08 February 2002 12:44 am, Tom Lane wrote:
> > mlw <markw(at)mohawksoft(dot)com> writes:
> > > but I'd like to make a general call to arms that this (or 7.3) should be
> > > the last release to require this.
>
> > We will never make such a commitment, at least not in the foreseeable
> > future.
>
> Why?
>
> > But to bind
> > ourselves forever to the current on-disk format is sheer folly.
>
> Certainly true. But upgradability!=bound-to-the-same-format.
>
> > And if you have to convert the datafile format then you might as
> > well dump and reload.
>
> No. Dump - reload is folly. And it doesn't always work. And that's the
> problem.

Add some unicode into it for even more fun. Bah.

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